FILE PHOTO: Oct 3, 2019; Charlotte , NC, USA; United States forward Megan Rapinoe (15) against South Korea during a USA Women's National Soccer Team Victory Tour at Bank of America Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jim Dedmon-USA TODAY Sports
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nearly 50 years after Billie Jean King and the so-called "Original Nine" began their campaign for equal prize money in tennis, the 12-times Grand Slam winner said much more progress was needed in gender equity in sport.
"You look at all the years of soccer, of baseball, all these different sports, they didn’t encourage us to go into baseball, they told us to go into softball," King told Reuters. "They wouldn’t let us run the marathon in the Olympics until 1984.
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